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THE CADET ISSUED BY
THE CORPS OF VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
VOL. IX LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1915 NO. LI
1916 BOMB DEDICATED TO
COLONEL JENNINGS C. WISE
DR. FRANKLIN VISITS INSTITUTE
All Copy Must Be in Before February-First Class-men
.Busy Writing Roommates Biographies
At a meeting of the first class the
1916 Bomb was dedicated to Colonel
Jennings C. Wise, '02, commandant
for the first two years that the class
of 1916 spent at V. M. I., and a
member of the faculty last year.
Every member of the first class is
personally acquainted with Colonel
Wise, so it is particularly fitting that
the annual published by men repre-senting
the class of 1916 should be
dedicated to this loyal alumrrus,
whose many efforts in behalf of the
Institute have won for him the respect
and admiration of the corps and alum-ni.
During the course of tne same
meeting, Read issued a slip of
"dope" for the write-ups to one first
classman for each room. Some of
those biographies are due to bare the
hidden secrets of many a first class-man's
life and expose to the gaze of
the popular mysteries " hithertofore"
(as Gonni Groover says) enshrouded in
gloom—and capes. Besides cartoons,
an intimate picture of each first class-man
is to be printed, of which only a
few have as yet been submitted. The
prize so far belongs to J. Craig Mil-j
ler,who is shown wrapped in the arms!
of Morpheus, doubtless dreaming of I
strategic retreats, security patrols, ]
and the many calic bowled over by his |
charms at the Washington and Lee j
hops.
At present the Bomb staff is expe-!
riencing one of its greatest trials,—
seeing its efforts to get copy in on
time go to naught. All photographs
and written matter, not to mention
drawings, must be sent to the J. P.
Bell company by Feb. 1, 1916. The
Bomb is disposing of Christmas cards
in barrack, beseeching alumni to
"come across" and subscribe, and so-liciting
ads in Lexington and by mail.
The more successful the financial
campaign, the better Bomb to send
your calic saying, "That's me in the
upper left hand corner,—you can't
see me very well because that guy's
head is in the way, and besides it
was a cloudy day.''
Mr. James Aboe. the J. P. Bell
photographer, will ue n town soon
with the proofs of the first ciass indi-vidual
pictures. "Jap" Millner
swears he won't taku nis if it really
looks like him. Mr. Abbe will also
take 3ome exterior pictures, including
class teams, providing the third and
rat cla.ia teams don't go to the hospit-al
in a body after Saturday's game.
Mr. Mi ley of Lexington, has kindly
agreed to take all interior pictures,
such as the commissioned officer
group, company officers, clubs, etc.
" K i n k " Lohmeyer, social editor,
promises something special in the way
of the "hop section" of the Bomb
this year, but if you really want to
know what it is, put your order in to
Read or McClellan and prepare to
see some of the prettiest girls that
have ever graced any annual in the
Lectures to Engineers During Day and Lectures to Whole Corps Monday Night
Last Monday night the corps as-sembled
in the Jackson Memorial hall
to hear a very interesting address
delivered by Dr. Franklin. In the
morning and afternoon of the same
day the members of the scientific
course heard him lecture on their
branches of study. Dr. Franklin was
born in Geary City, Kan., Oct. 27,
1863. He graduated at the Univer-sity
of Kansas in 1887 and then
studied at.the University of Berlin.
He was professor of physics and elec-trical
engineering at Iowa State col-lege
from 1892 until 1897, when he
accepted a professorship of the same
courses at Lehigh. Dr. Franklin is
the author of many books, several of
which are studied in this institution.
The subject of Dr. Franklin's lec-ture
in the morning was "Mechanical
Analogist in Electricity and Magne-tism."
In this lecture Dr. Franklin
showed quite a number of very inter-esting
esxperiments and showed very
plainly where several fundamental
formala in mechanical an 1 electrici-ty
were identical. With a very in-genious
mechanical device he showed
how an electric wire could transmit
a current of high frequency and one
of low frequency at the same time.
This fact makes it possible to
use both a telephone and telegraph
instrument on one line at the same
time without interfering with each
other.
In the afternoon Dr. Franklin lec-tured
on "Fluid Motion and the Cur-rent
Flight of a Baseball." After
showing the reason for the ordinary
curve he advanced a theory on the
spitball. As most Cadets are more
interested in this kind of physics
than any other this lecture was heard
with eyes and ears open.
In the talk given to the whole
corps that night it was very evident
that Dr. Franklin's life has not been
given to theory alone. The subject
of the talk was " B i l l ' s School and
Mine." In the address he drew a
comparison between the education of
the pioneer boy and the boy of today.
The whole talk teemed with the speak-ers
love of nature and Tactical
things.
Dr. Franklin is a very interesting
lecturer and has a knack of putting
difficult things in such a light as to
make them appea** very simple.
Week's Calendar
TUESDAY, DEC. 14, 1915.
Dancing in gymnasium with Man-dolin
club music at 6:30 p. m.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15, 1915.
Dancing in gymnasium to music of
Mandolin club at 6:30 p. m.
THURSDAY, DEC. 16, 1915.
Dancing in Gymnasium, Mandolin
club music.
Meeting of Cadet staff in Room 62
at 9:35 p. m.
FRIDAY, DEC 17, 1915.
Final Christmas hop in gymnasium
at 9 :00 p. m.
SATURDAY, DEC. 18, 1915.
The Dansant in gymnasium at 3:00
p. m.
Monogram club show in J. M. hall
at 7:20 p. m.
Second Christmas hop in gymnasium
at 8:30 p. m.
SUNDAY, DEC. 19, 115.
Meeting of Y. M. C. A. in Y. M.
C. A. hall at 6:30 p. m.
MONDAY, DEC. 20, 1915.
Dancing in gymnasium at 6:30
p. m., Monogram Club music.
SUPERINTENDENT MADE CHAIR-MAN
DF STEERING COMMITTEE
Speaks Before Roanoke Chamber of Commerce on
Preparedness
Many Excellent Poems and Stcrids Among Those Saiimitted to Judges
The juges have returned the stories
and poems submitted for the Story
Contest, after passing on the merits
of each, and all manuscript has been
sent to the Dulaney Boatwright Co.
of Lynchburg, Va., to whom the con-tract
was let for publication of the
Christmas supplement.
Quite a number of both stories and
poems were handed in, the standard
of all being high. Extracts from
the following letter from one of the
judges concerning the poems will give
an iiiea of the quality of verse that
cadet j are capable of:
Lexington, Dec. 3, 1915.
Dear Dr. Kerlin:
On the enclosed slip I name the
poems in which 1 conceive to be the
order of their merit.
I thought
best because of its concretness
I and its genuine narrative power,
j has one trite line (the sec-ond)
and another (the seventh);
nevertheless there is unmistakable
poetry in it. , . ., is
splendidly lyrical is a sub-i
stantial piece of work, with flexible
us' of the couplet; . . .
is catolugue like an uneven, but
vigorously effective in spots.
is good, but somewhat con-ventional.
Etc., etc Let
me say that the level of feeling and
workmanship is surprisingly high;
the young men are surely to be con-gratulated.
The stories deserve an equal praise.
A letter will be published in next
week's Cadet which will give some
idea of their quality.
Winners of the prizes will not be
known until the supplement is issued
and will also be announced in The Ca-det,
following, but in next week's
issue of this paper the names of those
stories and poems which the Christ-mas
supplement will contain, will be
published.
Much interest has been displayed in
barracks and among the alumni over
the coming magazine and its editors
promise that there will be no disap-pointment
when it arrives. The
cover, printed in red and green is a
prize in itself, the cut being truly
characteristic cf V. M. I.
Casey" Root, '14, is in heaven at
last. lie is permanently located
at 1036A National avenue, MILWAU-KEE,
Wis. Just received a happy let-ter
from him recently. On a recent
visit to Chicago "Bob" Clarkson,
ex'15, "C. B." Arms. '15, and
"Swede" Marshall, '14, were seen
by him. Write again, Root.
Continuid from page S
"Sump" Lowry is captain of a
crack rifle company a Tampa, Fla.
This company has been, made color
company of its battalion, and at a re-cent
state encampment carried away
most of the honors.
The superintendent delivered an ad-dress
on " Preparedness" before the
chamber of commerce of Roanoke on
the evening of Dec. 10th.
The association of Military colleges
and Schools of the United States has
chosen General Nichols to be chair-man
of its steering committee. The
work of this committee will consist
chiefly in conferring with the Presi-dent,
the secretary of war, members
of congress and others having to do
with the preparation of military
measures for introduction in congress,
the aim being to afford those in gov-ernmental
authority the benefit of the
export advice of the men in active
charge of the country's military
schools and colleges. It is generally
recognized that any scheme of pre-
"paredness that does not make large
use of the military institutions of the
i United States will not achieve the
greatest possible good. It is known
that administration leaders in Wash-ington
are heartily in favor of basing
plans for a reserve corps of army
! officers largely upon the military col-leges.
Accordingly, it is anticipated
that the steering committtee,of which
the superintenent is chairman, will
; play an important part in military
legislation at this session of congress.
John Stroh, ex'14, is connected
with the Stroh Brewing company of
Detroit, owned by his father.
WHERE TO FIND DEPARTMENTS
(Signed)
Sincerely yours,
GARLAND GREEVER.
Captain " A b e " Kibler, '12, is em-ployed
as an assistant professor at
the University of Manilla in the
Philippines.
Athletics Page 6
Directory " 4
Editorials " 4
Military Notes " 3
Personal and Alumni Notes " 5
Week'sCalendar " 2
Week's News " 2

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THE CADET ISSUED BY
THE CORPS OF VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
VOL. IX LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1915 NO. LI
1916 BOMB DEDICATED TO
COLONEL JENNINGS C. WISE
DR. FRANKLIN VISITS INSTITUTE
All Copy Must Be in Before February-First Class-men
.Busy Writing Roommates Biographies
At a meeting of the first class the
1916 Bomb was dedicated to Colonel
Jennings C. Wise, '02, commandant
for the first two years that the class
of 1916 spent at V. M. I., and a
member of the faculty last year.
Every member of the first class is
personally acquainted with Colonel
Wise, so it is particularly fitting that
the annual published by men repre-senting
the class of 1916 should be
dedicated to this loyal alumrrus,
whose many efforts in behalf of the
Institute have won for him the respect
and admiration of the corps and alum-ni.
During the course of tne same
meeting, Read issued a slip of
"dope" for the write-ups to one first
classman for each room. Some of
those biographies are due to bare the
hidden secrets of many a first class-man's
life and expose to the gaze of
the popular mysteries " hithertofore"
(as Gonni Groover says) enshrouded in
gloom—and capes. Besides cartoons,
an intimate picture of each first class-man
is to be printed, of which only a
few have as yet been submitted. The
prize so far belongs to J. Craig Mil-j
ler,who is shown wrapped in the arms!
of Morpheus, doubtless dreaming of I
strategic retreats, security patrols, ]
and the many calic bowled over by his |
charms at the Washington and Lee j
hops.
At present the Bomb staff is expe-!
riencing one of its greatest trials,—
seeing its efforts to get copy in on
time go to naught. All photographs
and written matter, not to mention
drawings, must be sent to the J. P.
Bell company by Feb. 1, 1916. The
Bomb is disposing of Christmas cards
in barrack, beseeching alumni to
"come across" and subscribe, and so-liciting
ads in Lexington and by mail.
The more successful the financial
campaign, the better Bomb to send
your calic saying, "That's me in the
upper left hand corner,—you can't
see me very well because that guy's
head is in the way, and besides it
was a cloudy day.''
Mr. James Aboe. the J. P. Bell
photographer, will ue n town soon
with the proofs of the first ciass indi-vidual
pictures. "Jap" Millner
swears he won't taku nis if it really
looks like him. Mr. Abbe will also
take 3ome exterior pictures, including
class teams, providing the third and
rat cla.ia teams don't go to the hospit-al
in a body after Saturday's game.
Mr. Mi ley of Lexington, has kindly
agreed to take all interior pictures,
such as the commissioned officer
group, company officers, clubs, etc.
" K i n k " Lohmeyer, social editor,
promises something special in the way
of the "hop section" of the Bomb
this year, but if you really want to
know what it is, put your order in to
Read or McClellan and prepare to
see some of the prettiest girls that
have ever graced any annual in the
Lectures to Engineers During Day and Lectures to Whole Corps Monday Night
Last Monday night the corps as-sembled
in the Jackson Memorial hall
to hear a very interesting address
delivered by Dr. Franklin. In the
morning and afternoon of the same
day the members of the scientific
course heard him lecture on their
branches of study. Dr. Franklin was
born in Geary City, Kan., Oct. 27,
1863. He graduated at the Univer-sity
of Kansas in 1887 and then
studied at.the University of Berlin.
He was professor of physics and elec-trical
engineering at Iowa State col-lege
from 1892 until 1897, when he
accepted a professorship of the same
courses at Lehigh. Dr. Franklin is
the author of many books, several of
which are studied in this institution.
The subject of Dr. Franklin's lec-ture
in the morning was "Mechanical
Analogist in Electricity and Magne-tism."
In this lecture Dr. Franklin
showed quite a number of very inter-esting
esxperiments and showed very
plainly where several fundamental
formala in mechanical an 1 electrici-ty
were identical. With a very in-genious
mechanical device he showed
how an electric wire could transmit
a current of high frequency and one
of low frequency at the same time.
This fact makes it possible to
use both a telephone and telegraph
instrument on one line at the same
time without interfering with each
other.
In the afternoon Dr. Franklin lec-tured
on "Fluid Motion and the Cur-rent
Flight of a Baseball." After
showing the reason for the ordinary
curve he advanced a theory on the
spitball. As most Cadets are more
interested in this kind of physics
than any other this lecture was heard
with eyes and ears open.
In the talk given to the whole
corps that night it was very evident
that Dr. Franklin's life has not been
given to theory alone. The subject
of the talk was " B i l l ' s School and
Mine." In the address he drew a
comparison between the education of
the pioneer boy and the boy of today.
The whole talk teemed with the speak-ers
love of nature and Tactical
things.
Dr. Franklin is a very interesting
lecturer and has a knack of putting
difficult things in such a light as to
make them appea** very simple.
Week's Calendar
TUESDAY, DEC. 14, 1915.
Dancing in gymnasium with Man-dolin
club music at 6:30 p. m.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15, 1915.
Dancing in gymnasium to music of
Mandolin club at 6:30 p. m.
THURSDAY, DEC. 16, 1915.
Dancing in Gymnasium, Mandolin
club music.
Meeting of Cadet staff in Room 62
at 9:35 p. m.
FRIDAY, DEC 17, 1915.
Final Christmas hop in gymnasium
at 9 :00 p. m.
SATURDAY, DEC. 18, 1915.
The Dansant in gymnasium at 3:00
p. m.
Monogram club show in J. M. hall
at 7:20 p. m.
Second Christmas hop in gymnasium
at 8:30 p. m.
SUNDAY, DEC. 19, 115.
Meeting of Y. M. C. A. in Y. M.
C. A. hall at 6:30 p. m.
MONDAY, DEC. 20, 1915.
Dancing in gymnasium at 6:30
p. m., Monogram Club music.
SUPERINTENDENT MADE CHAIR-MAN
DF STEERING COMMITTEE
Speaks Before Roanoke Chamber of Commerce on
Preparedness
Many Excellent Poems and Stcrids Among Those Saiimitted to Judges
The juges have returned the stories
and poems submitted for the Story
Contest, after passing on the merits
of each, and all manuscript has been
sent to the Dulaney Boatwright Co.
of Lynchburg, Va., to whom the con-tract
was let for publication of the
Christmas supplement.
Quite a number of both stories and
poems were handed in, the standard
of all being high. Extracts from
the following letter from one of the
judges concerning the poems will give
an iiiea of the quality of verse that
cadet j are capable of:
Lexington, Dec. 3, 1915.
Dear Dr. Kerlin:
On the enclosed slip I name the
poems in which 1 conceive to be the
order of their merit.
I thought
best because of its concretness
I and its genuine narrative power,
j has one trite line (the sec-ond)
and another (the seventh);
nevertheless there is unmistakable
poetry in it. , . ., is
splendidly lyrical is a sub-i
stantial piece of work, with flexible
us' of the couplet; . . .
is catolugue like an uneven, but
vigorously effective in spots.
is good, but somewhat con-ventional.
Etc., etc Let
me say that the level of feeling and
workmanship is surprisingly high;
the young men are surely to be con-gratulated.
The stories deserve an equal praise.
A letter will be published in next
week's Cadet which will give some
idea of their quality.
Winners of the prizes will not be
known until the supplement is issued
and will also be announced in The Ca-det,
following, but in next week's
issue of this paper the names of those
stories and poems which the Christ-mas
supplement will contain, will be
published.
Much interest has been displayed in
barracks and among the alumni over
the coming magazine and its editors
promise that there will be no disap-pointment
when it arrives. The
cover, printed in red and green is a
prize in itself, the cut being truly
characteristic cf V. M. I.
Casey" Root, '14, is in heaven at
last. lie is permanently located
at 1036A National avenue, MILWAU-KEE,
Wis. Just received a happy let-ter
from him recently. On a recent
visit to Chicago "Bob" Clarkson,
ex'15, "C. B." Arms. '15, and
"Swede" Marshall, '14, were seen
by him. Write again, Root.
Continuid from page S
"Sump" Lowry is captain of a
crack rifle company a Tampa, Fla.
This company has been, made color
company of its battalion, and at a re-cent
state encampment carried away
most of the honors.
The superintendent delivered an ad-dress
on " Preparedness" before the
chamber of commerce of Roanoke on
the evening of Dec. 10th.
The association of Military colleges
and Schools of the United States has
chosen General Nichols to be chair-man
of its steering committee. The
work of this committee will consist
chiefly in conferring with the Presi-dent,
the secretary of war, members
of congress and others having to do
with the preparation of military
measures for introduction in congress,
the aim being to afford those in gov-ernmental
authority the benefit of the
export advice of the men in active
charge of the country's military
schools and colleges. It is generally
recognized that any scheme of pre-
"paredness that does not make large
use of the military institutions of the
i United States will not achieve the
greatest possible good. It is known
that administration leaders in Wash-ington
are heartily in favor of basing
plans for a reserve corps of army
! officers largely upon the military col-leges.
Accordingly, it is anticipated
that the steering committtee,of which
the superintenent is chairman, will
; play an important part in military
legislation at this session of congress.
John Stroh, ex'14, is connected
with the Stroh Brewing company of
Detroit, owned by his father.
WHERE TO FIND DEPARTMENTS
(Signed)
Sincerely yours,
GARLAND GREEVER.
Captain " A b e " Kibler, '12, is em-ployed
as an assistant professor at
the University of Manilla in the
Philippines.
Athletics Page 6
Directory " 4
Editorials " 4
Military Notes " 3
Personal and Alumni Notes " 5
Week'sCalendar " 2
Week's News " 2